The Vision of God - Paperback

The Vision of God by Nicholas of Cusa is one of the foundational texts of late medieval Christian mysticism. Known for his negative theology, particularly as displayed in the seminal work De Docta Ignorantia (Of Learned Ignorance), Nicholas shows how accepting the limits of man’s rational understanding leads to a fuller experience of the divine. Man, he believed, is capable of comprehending God’s inner being, an experience he characterized as a “coincidence of opposites.” Unlike his previous works, though, in The Vision of God Nicholas spends little time on a direct discussion of theology or philosophy and instead focuses directly on experience of the divine.